Today on Quantum Vibe: Down to hard cases Strip 2434 - Click strip above to goto the next strip.
First Seen: Mon 2023-08-28
Story & Art: Scott Bieser - Sci-Fi Adventure Monday & Thursday.
Dark plans fall like thunderbolts.
Quantum Vibe
A thousand years in the future, humanity has colonized worlds in nearly
100 galaxies, thanks to Quantum Vibremonic technologies developed five
centuries earlier. Other new technologies have created various
off-shoots of humanity and extended life expectancies five-fold. The
story begins with how a mad scientist and his plucky assistant, along
with their robot friend, brought humanity to the stars, and continues
with the adventures of some unique people in fantastic places.
Panel 1
Cut to Dio Acharya, also wearing a ‘group-displacer’harness, stands with a middle-aged man, woman and teen-aged girl. Behind them are more rescues from Cedar Park Villas.
Caption: About 6 minutes later:
Middle-aged man: Hey, thanks for the rescue!
Middle-aged woman: I don’t know how to thank you!
Dio: Hey, it was the least I could do.
Panel 2
Dio confers with Guido
Dio: Well, that completes my list, who’s next?
Guido: That’s a tough question.
Guido: Now we’re-a down to the tough cases.
Panel 3
Dio and Guido:
Dio: Invaders and hostages together?
Guido: We gotta five a-rooms with mixes …
Guido: Three assholes and two hostages, two assholes and six hostages, like that.
Panel 4
Dio and Guido:
Dio: Give me one of the more challenging ones.
Guido: Ok, stand-by while I collect-a volunteers.
Guido: When we strike we gotta go together, ‘coz-a the first-a shot will alert the others.
Panel 5
Now Dio, Guido and Sargon (remember Sargon?), all with both displacer harnesses and arms.
Caption: Shortly:
Dio: I got three and two. What are you guys taking on?
Guido: Four anna seven. But Sargon is-a teaming with me.
Guido: He’s-a young but he’s gotta fast aim.
Panel 6
Cut to outside an apartment at the Villas. One of the Libérateurs is standing in the open door and calls to his partner standing just outside.
Caption: At that very same moment:
Lib 1: How many people did they say were being held here?
Lib 2: Three. Why?
Lib 1: Right now there’s zero. Sound the alarm.